Whitman possessed : poetry, sexuality, and popular authority
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Whitman possessed : poetry, sexuality, and popular authority
Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-213) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Whitman has long been more than a celebrated American author. He has become a kind of hero, whose poetry vindicates beliefs not only about poetry but also about sexuality and power. In this work Mark Maslan presents a challenging theory of Whitman's poetics of possession and his understandings of individual and national identity. By reading his works in relation to 19th-century theories of sexual desire, poetic inspiration and political representation, Maslan argues that the disintegration of individuality in Whitman's texts is not meant to undermine cultural hierarchies, but to make poetic and political authority newly viable. In particular, Maslan explores the social impact of 19th-century sexual hygiene literature on Whitman's works. He argues that Whitman developed his ideas about poetry, sexuality, and authority by responding to a prominent argument that desire subjected male bodies to a penetrating and feminizing force. By identifying poetic inspiration with this erotic dynamic, Whitman imbued his poetic voice with a kind of transformative power.
Whitman aligned his poetry with an impartial authority hard to find elsewhere and inclined his work as a poet to speak for the voiceless, for the masses, and for an entire nation.
目次
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Sexual Hygiene: The Natural Gates and Alleys of the Body
Chapter 2: Sexuality and Poetic Agency
Chapter 3: Masses and Muses
Chapter 4: Lines of Penetration
Abbreviations
Notes
Index
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